Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center has created this site as a resource for the Cuban Missile Crisis. Designed to help policymakers, students, and interested citizens draw lessons from these critical events half a century ago, this site not only provides background on the crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster in October 1962 but also offers tools to understand how it can inform contemporary policy.
Photograph of the Soviet Ship Ansov Departing from Cuba During the Cuban Missile Crisis, 11/06/1962. [ARC Identifier 595365 / Local Identifier 306-N-62-7101; Item from Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900 – 2003] National Archives, Unrestricted Use.